| Noise pollution (or environmental noise in technical | | | | problem. Nowadays basically we have people living on |
| areas and venues) is termed as displeasing or | | | | top of each other, underneath each other and in fact |
| annoying human or mechanically caused sound that is | | | | all over the place and more importantly interfacing with |
| or can be described as alien to the environment. | | | | modern day technologies in ways that hitherto would |
| I guess to most of us the major source of this pollution | | | | have thought to have been impossible. As such the |
| would come from transportation systems, as anyone | | | | use of the acoustic foam and the noise dampening |
| who has tried to hire a car from the main AVIS car | | | | systems are essential. |
| rental depot at Heathrow Airport would testify to. | | | | If we take for example the situation in many cities |
| Based on the perimeter road at Heathrow sometimes | | | | nowadays when we have whole plethoras of modern |
| the noise of landing 747's can make it a little difficult | | | | communication links such as underground railway |
| explaining to the attendant what problems you may | | | | systems, over ground railway systems, modern |
| have had (or not) with the car you are returning. | | | | two-way flyovers and in fact transports |
| However before we all start to assume that noise | | | | communications and residential accommodation right |
| pollution is purely something that occurs in major cities | | | | next to each other. Without adequate noise reduction |
| let us consider the effect of noise pollution in rural | | | | systems in place and incorporated within the structure |
| communities. Now noise from recreational vehicles has | | | | of the residential and work accommodation than pretty |
| become quite a major issue with the rural communities. | | | | quickly life within these new cities would become |
| Quad Bikes or All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's) have | | | | pretty intolerable. |
| become a serious problem in the countryside. They | | | | As we have said before, enter stage left acoustic |
| have increased massively in popularity and are joining | | | | foam. Without these new technologies providing the |
| the more traditional two wheeled bikes as the vehicle | | | | noise insulation, the quality of life in most built up areas |
| of choice for off road riding. | | | | would be appalling. |
| The bottom line is that we live in a noisy world and by | | | | At this point it becomes pretty obvious to all |
| that I mean not just the sound of cars and traffic etc | | | | concerned quite what a debt we owe to noise |
| but the way we live our lives and perhaps more | | | | reduction systems and soundproofing in general that |
| importantly where we are now living and the density | | | | quite often mere words on no longer enough. |
| of the accommodation we provide ourselves. | | | | Having lived in the centre of London and also spent |
| In the old days when basically all you had to worry | | | | time on the northwest coast of County Donegal in |
| about was the old cottage in the middle of the field 6 | | | | Ireland, when it comes to noise pollution I know which |
| miles away from the nearest neighbour you could | | | | one I prefer. |
| make as much noise as you wanted and it wasn't a | | | | |